The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-10
CAPITAL CHIPS.
Words Wired From Wash
ington on Saturday.
TIE MONROE DOCTRINE AGAIN
Commissioners sparHs-Neval Vessels
Sold at Public Auction-Other
News Paragraphs
From the Capital

WASHINGTON, April 9.-Although no
official announcement has been received
at the Department of State of the report
that Great Britain has threatened to
seize Tortugas Islands, yet it is learned
that the American consul at Hayti has
kept the department fully informed as
TO the nature of the British claim. and
ailproc edings takenby that government
against Haytl during the past three or
| four years. Now that the matter is re-
ported to have assumed so serious
q phase, government, with g view to
being prepared for any emergency, is
beginning to canvass Its resources in
case it should become necessary TO
again assert the intention of this
country.to
MAINTAIN THE MONROE DOCTRINE
to the extent of protecting those small
republics of the American continent
against encroachment of the European
powers.
The result of the inquiries into the
naval resources of the United States is
not encouraging so far. Several wooden
vessels forming training Squadrons are
n on their way norrhward from the
West Indies. at present there is no
flag in Haytian waters. The Yantic
is at Key West and the GsIenG
at Aspinwall, and it is probable
that one or both these vessels may be
ordered to the vicinity of Bayti to
represent the United States government,
in the event that it may become neces-
sary to enter formal protest against
European encToachment in the West
| Indies.
AcTING-sECRETARY MULDRoW
has recommended to the Attorney
General that suit be instituted to cancel
patents for twenty-five homestead
entries made in township bounded on
the east, by Ration Greek and on the
west by Turner's Creek, in Pueblo,
Colorado, land district It is charged
| that these entries, with one exception,
were all made in the names of
| fictitious persons and that the tract
in question contains the largest and
fnestcoal deposits inSouthern Colorado,
coal cropping out of the surface. Men
ton is made of the statement as signif-
cant that e. B. Soiris, the reported
owner of these lands, was in 1873
Deputy United States Surveyor, and as
such Surveyed the lands, but made no
mention of their mineral character.
| COMMISSIONER sPARKs.
of the General Land Office. has recon-
mended to the Secretary of the Interior
thst suit be instituted in the Territorial
COURTS of New Mexico, to yScate the
patent to ABOUT 550.O90 acres OF land in
Colorado and New Mexico, alleged to
have b@n enormously included in the
survey and patent of the TERRA
Amarillo grant. dated February, 1881.
This recommendation is based on the
report of Surveyor-General Julian. of
New Mexico, from which it appears
that the patent embraced common
| lands that were left free to the public
by the reservation of the Mexican gov
eminent, which, therefore, could not
pass under the grant and confirmation.
Funds available for
REPAIRS'To THE NAVAL VESSELS
are at very low ebb. and within a
short time a heavy discharge of the
force will be made at the navy yards.
Reductions have already been ordered
at Mare Island, Portsmouth, n. B., and
New York navy yards. A large part of
the central appropriations for the con-
struction and repair of vessels has been
diverted to the completion OF the
cruisers Chicago, Boston and atlanta,
special appropriation for which failed
with the general deficiency bill. Not
much more then S25 900 is available for
repair work at the navy yards during
the remainder of the fiscal year and
this sum is also subject to drafts. from
vessels repairing at foreign stations.
AS a result of the survey of the United
States ships Shenandoah ard Ldcka-
qganna at Mare Island, California, these
vessels will be
SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION
and their names will be stricken from
the naval register. There are two other
wooden naval vessels, CyGnle ane Wachm-
set s, now condemued, waiting sale at
Mare Island. and three at New York.
the Tennessee, PowhGttGn, and YacoBdei .
goo, TIE names Of wooden warships, are
RAPIDLY disappearing and Mare Island
has acquired the name OF the naval
graveyard among naval officers, from
fbs number of condemned vessels
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